Volume 27, Issue 137, July 2023

Case of Rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis post COVID-19 infection

Lojain Bassyoni¹

¹King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
ORCID: 0000-0002-3707-9076

ABSTRACT

Mucormycosis used to be a rare fungal infection that could affect the craniofacial area among other regions in the body. However, after COVID19 era it became more common especially in older individuals with systemic co morbidities like diabetes. Rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis is a severe and a serious complication of COVID-19 infection that has a high morbidity and mortality rate despite proper medical and surgical management. Here we report a case of Rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis post covid infection in a 66-year-old female patient who presented with a fungating eye lesion.

Keywords: Mucormycosis, Rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis, COVID-19

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e289ms3067

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i137/e289ms3067

Published: 09 July 2023